Band Quotes
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There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
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I was at that age…I was interested in girls so (being in a band) made it better!
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I don't like English bands. They're too structured.
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I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'
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It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.
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I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.
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In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.
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Still searching for those golden moments. They’re out there and I will find them. Plus, I have a great band and we all get along very well. It makes it fun to be on stage. Besides, I don’t know how to do anything else.
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Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.
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First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.
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Motley is a great band; they're a legendary band. They're probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.
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It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'
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I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.
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It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.
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Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.
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I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.
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Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
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Since the start it’s basically been a solo project from the business and behind the scenes stuff to the writing and playing but I have had band members and outside writers too but generally I play almost all of the guitars, bass and solos but at times other band members have played too.
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Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.
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I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful.
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To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
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It's just really cool to go to countries and play festivals for people who don't really know your band or don't ever get to see it. It's really nice.
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Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.
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I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been what Sonic Youth has been.
